5 key takeaways from Rachel Reeves’s speech, including a hike to the minimum wage
‘The last Labour government delivered Britain’s first ever national minimum wage. The next Labour government will introduce a genuine living wage.’
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A round of progressive news…
Louise Haigh: “Labour in power will bring our railways back into public ownership.”
‘We believe in a public transport system where power is in the hands of the public.’
Labour4PR rally: ‘This is about justice in our political system’
“PR creates a culture of much better decision making and working across parties in order to improve quality of decisions made.”
Interview: Tan Dhesi urges government to do more to guard against imported toxic ideologies following violent unrest in Leicester
“We have to constantly work to keep community cohesion because there are forces at play who do not want that to happen.”
Angela Rayner tells Labour conference the party will ‘oversee the biggest wave of insourcing in a generation’
‘The Tories have become too dependent on handing away our public services on the cheap’
New campaign aims to raise awareness of clothing deprivation
The initiative is aimed at exposing clothing poverty and waste, to provide adequate clothing for all, and bring about change in law around the right to clothing.
Liz Truss is planning a “full frontal assault on working people” – Frances O’Grady interview
TUC general secretary Frances O’Grady speaks to Left Foot Forward about the government’s plans for workers’ rights, the current wave of strikes and how trade unions can help tackle the climate crisis
Gordon Brown’s superb Twitter thread on the scale of poverty and inequality in the UK
‘The low paid get just £550 in government help, despite facing £1,300 rise in fuel bills not to mention other costs’.
Prem Sikka: This mini-budget will only increase inequality and poverty
The biggest winners are corporations and the rich. As a result, the government’s borrowing will surge from £72.4bn, to £234.1bn, but won’t provide details of the impact on current and future generations.